Since playing for United again, following a summer of speculation and injury, much has been made of the fans’ reaction to Cristiano Ronaldo. He was fortunate to miss the first month of the season, as fans who were riled up over the summer and calmed down considerably a few weeks in, particularly after a string of substandard performances. He escaped receiving a booing, but I think there has been a very apparent shift in our treatment of him.
When he’s scored, we’ve sang his song, but that is about as far as it goes. The stark contrast between our support at Ewood Park last season compared to this seemed to highlight it all the more. With a few weeks until the end of the season, his name was sang for pretty much 90 minutes. In the match there just a couple of weeks ago, ‘Viva Ronaldo’ just got a couple of rounds.
I’m pleased to see our fans haven’t been complete mugs where Ronaldo is concerned. It’s as if we’ve already said our goodbyes, knowing he’ll be off in the summer, so can just enjoy what he gives us until then. If he scores, brilliant, if he picks up an assist, great, but he’s shown he’ll never be ‘one of us’.
Still, I keep hearing Ronaldo talking about the fans, about how pleased he is that we’ve welcomed him back, and I can’t help but wondering, does he really give a shit less?
“In the game when I came back against Villarreal I wasn’t nervous but just a bit excited to see how the fans would react to me,” Ronaldo said. “Thank God things went well. This shows people have not forgotten all the good things we’ve done together and I’m very happy with that.”
If he cares about the fans’ opinion so much, why did he dick about all summer, saying he loved to play in white, and that God only knew his future. Yes, God did know your future, and He flew out to Portugal and told you that you were staying, remember?
It’s a odd situation to feel so disconnected from one of our players, particularly when considering that he’s our ‘best player’, the best in the World. But I read what he has to stay about the fans, thanking God that we still accept him, and think, bollocks. What is it that FC United fans sing about Rio again?
Regardless, Ronaldo is hopeful of winning the league and European Cup this season, which I suppose would be an acceptable parting gift…
“Things are going pretty well,” Ronaldo said of the season so far. “I’d love a repeat of last season and continue to show some good progression.”
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Great player no doubt but not a great man.
Ronaldo soley cares and plays for himself, I will never boo the lad because while he wears the red shirt he is one of ours, but I find it hard to cheer him.
He is only at United because he has to, Fergie would not sell him for all Rojas in Spain, as a matter of principal and would not be bullied by Real.
His antics in the summer “only got knows” and “I love wearing white” were a slap around the face to all United fans who sang his name and stood up for him after Rooneygate.
But thats football these days, lots of footballers are mercenries, but give me Rio, Rooney, G Nev, Scholes and Giggsy any day, they genuinely love the club like us fans who I believe have been let down by him.
He’s going in summer — it almost oozes out of him. Still, if he pays for Costa, Valencia, Palacios, Scweinsteiger, and Benzema
Most pressing is what do we do about Saha-greaves. Will his latest return to fitness last more than two games?
Again i’d rather see him in shitty than in real madrid.
His behaviour is really unbelievable,never committed,and never will be.
event hough he’s the best in the planet.
I think he will go to R. Madrid and good riddence, get as much as we can for him and buy a couple of players not mercenries.
But please sign Tevez.
Mate Nice article there, but there is something i always relised in your blogs is that you always say for example fergie is God and stuff like that.
Sorry but this could be offenisve to some people who read the blogs and its definatly offencive to me.
Hope you can do less of that in the future but well done for evreything.
thanks.
Fergie>God
No, AJ. We’re not offended at all. We’re not Americans. Fergie>God, as Stephen already said.
aj- get a grip you retard.
fergie is the main man. does god even exist?
Id like to say im indifferant to the speculation at the moment , i see Real having to sign CR7 rather than wanting to . For them its about keeping the Galacticos image ,5TH in their own league at the mo Shuster/Calderon must be looking to their jobs and the reputation of the club.
I was glad we stood up to them,We are 2ND to no one .As for Ronnie he goes at our say so and our price. I will wish him well and wonder how long it will be until Rudd has him in tears ?
Of course god exists….
AIG = Alex Is God
AJ, we are called the Red Devils.
If he want our respect and love back, he should come out straight away an rebuff Real f****ing Madrid.
I would also make Real A** H****S Madrid take it or leave it offer: Ronald for £100 million. If they want him so desperately they should made pay dearly for him.
As for those FIFA b******s, if this is not an illegal approach what it is?
Xyth, why selling to the wankers in Madrid,if Man shitty are ready to offer as much as £135 million ???????
He signed a contract while he was smiling. If he wants to leave, WE DECIDE AT WHICH PRICE HE GOES.
Fuck all you lot who think God dont exist. Thats fuckin’ childish stuff. Get a grip your pussies
I reckon get city interested if they have a sniff of buying him to bump the price up… then sell him to madrid…
1) means we are fuckin citeh over, like they did with us with Berba by bumping the price up.
2) Means we prob will get about 100 million for him.. especially after he wins Baloon D’or this december..
If we really doesnt wanna be here then we might as well cash in and get some really decent replacements…
This way fergie has got all season to cherry pick who he wants
One thing,IMo,everyone who doesnt believe that , there’s a God, is naive…
Every single player has his own level of satisfaction. No two players have the same attitude. Gigs, Scholes Rooney,Rio are all British players they are all devoted to there home clubs. Now what about these players, what do they have in common- Ruud, Heinz, Stam, etc. I’ll never boo CR7 after all he did for us singularly. Fergi is no god
tk 99,
for 135 million, i will personally fly to england, rent a car, pick him up at ot and drop him off at eastlands.
When will you lot realise that at the end of the season he is going to leave you for ‘pastures new’.
And just for good measure I would not have the overated ‘show pony’ anywhere near to Citys ground.
If this misfortune were ever to be realised then I for one would stay away’there is no spoon long enough that would make me sup with the devil’.
I dont see him as the same player anymore
It’s almost as if he’s on loan to us from Madrid.
Grrr
AJ YOU BELEIVE WHAT YOU SEE
I AINT SEEN “GOD”
BUT I KNOW IVE SEEN SIR ALEX
RUUD IS ONE OF THE BEST STRICKERS IVE EVER BUT IT WORKS OUT BETTER IF YOU LOSE SOMEONE WHO DOESNT WANT TO BE THERE
GOD AINT GOT A THING ON THE GATTER
SUE ROONEYS BETTER
I think the concept of him being on loan to us from Real (see unitedgirl’s comment) is quite a good way of summing up how many of us feel. Last season, he was an arrogant, annoying winker a lot of the time – but he was OUR arrogant, annoying winker.
Now, he feels like a mercenary, someone who’s using us as a stage for his talents as much as we’re using him to further our team. I don’t like how that feels.
One thing I have said all along, though – I may not cheer quite so loudly, but the way he plays still puts a smile on my face. There is nothing better for me than high quality wing play, something United have a great tradition of – and having watched Giggs, Kanchelskis and Sharpe (amongst others), Ronaldo is still the best I’ve seen. I still enjoy watching him play, even if it is a slightly different sort of enjoyment to before.
And I’m prepared to be won back over the course of the season. I’d be won back today if he ruled out, once and for all, going to Madrid next summer – that would be the commitment that would silence the cynics.
God is an amalgamation of different entities that where worshiped in the Middle East, Greece, and parts of Africa (Egypt). The time period that they where worshiped was between 5,000-2,000 years ago. Pauline Christianity borrowed mostly from the Egyptian mystery religions. The apostle paul subverted and twisted the original message of the church of Jesus and James(the brother of Jesus) because Jesus’s and James’s message was hostile to the Romans. Paul basically sold out to the Romans. It was paul’s version of christianity that won out (thanks in part to roman emperor constantine) and it is this form of christianity that is worshiped by everyone today. It is so very IRONIC that more people have died in the name of GOD than in the name Satan.
Cheering for Ronaldo just isn’t the same for me, it’s almost as if my heart isn’t in it for him. His ego will be his undoing. In the article he says he wasn’t “nervous” but “excited.” Give me a break just admit you where nervous.
p.s.
Paul never even met Jesus. Who would you believe-a man that never even met Jesus or Jesus’s own brother.
Oh, and last I checked, this isn’t a forum for theological debate…get back on topic, guys.
Lads..lets leave religious connotations out off football. Thanks.
God does exist and lets not get blasphemous about other peoples religious beliefs.
This is a football website…..MORE IMPORTANTLY ABOUT MANCHESTER UNITED……THE BEST CLUB IN THE UNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVERSE.
LETS stick to that ladies lol
Ronaldo leaving staying?????? yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn. Hasnt this issue been exhausted enough over the last 6 months????? Blimey..its getting reeeeeeeeeeeally boring now.
I agree I am bored of the Ronaldo saga, but it will never go away simply because Real abuse the laws of the game in their pursuit of him, and he loves the attention.
I have belief that Fergie wants to keep him until the end of his tenure at the club, and Ronaldo knows that. Once SAF leaves, and it could be as little a couple of years then it will give Ronaldo an out and he will take it.
We should have sold him in the summer, we would have got top money for him, his stock was high and so was ours, we could have courted many of the top players in Europe being Champions league winners, and sold the ungratefull shit for top money having scored the goals he did.
PS, Sorry if my poor attempt at humour insulted anyone.
Stephen you’re right mate…but each time i see a ronaldo – real..i want to stay – i want to go – i love the fans – i have a dream – we want him – we will oewn his soul – own his arse article etc etc etc etc article. Well lets just say id rather have a bus run me over than read it and give it much thought time effort or credence or substance.
Same old crap that we’ll probs keep hearing over and over and over again.
I just say ignore…whatever will happen will happen..we trust our club and we deffo trust SAF…..thats enough contentment for me
Next article scott please.
Suhayl, spot on mate we all just have to accept the fact that the greasy one is a player for hire. He will do his time at the club and move on to sunnier pastures.
The thing he will never be in my eyes is a United legend, which is a shame.
On a different note I hear the dippers are fuming about UEFA moving their Atletico champions league game.
“It is an utterly ridiculous decision so late in the day,” chairman of the Liverpool Supporters’ Club Richie Pedder told BBC Sport
Well the whole of English football were fuming when they got us all banned from European football, scum bags.
Suhayl… common sense prevails by yourself yet again matey…
Your right.. what will happen will happen… i would love him to stay, but like people say… his heart would have to be in it… and if he said that he wanted to stay in public.. but we all know that is very unlikely to happen…
With regards to the religion bollox… im a Roman Catholic… and Man U is a RC club… does that mean that non Roman Catholics are not allowed to follow United??? nooooo dont think so..
At the end of the day… everyone has the rights to have a belief, and see “God” in different ways..
I might be Roman Catholic, but …”United is my religion…its in my blood !!”
blimey. didnt realise i,d cause such a stir by asking the question, does god even exist?!
just for the record for those that cant read, that doesnt mean i dont think god exists. i dont know. and neither do any of us.
so calm down SULLYand get a grip of ur own pussy before u go incorrectly having a dig, unless ive missed something, i dont believe anyone else has said that GOD DOES NOT exist either.
p.s. great article scott!
Stephen… it makes me laff and fume with the dippers… they can boast that they had 3 European Cup successes at the time of them getting us banned… but if it wasnt for them getting us banned… and we also need to remember that there team was coming to its end as it was ageing… that United prob would have caught upto them by now, as it put English football back i would say a decade…
Alright some might say that SAF took 6 years to get it right… from when he took over in 86, but you imagine the way some players would have developed if we had been in euro competition, prior to us with ECWC in 1991.
Dippers are dippy, we all know that, and they always feel like they have had an injustice against them… for fucks sake… they are dippers… its deserved…
Bossdem… “You trouble causer you” lol :0)
fergie>god
ronaldo<judas
amen
I hope he goes to Barcelona instead
To be honest It will take a few seasons for me to ever accept ronaldo fully again, if he stays that long. the point made about FC united singin about Rio shows just how wrong we could all be to turn against ronaldo completly, Rio is a world class player and most people wont even remember he acted a dick a few years ago look at him now captained United last season while Nev was out and is one of our best ever defenders, If Ronaldo stays, keeps his mouth shut about madrid and gives it his all if in a a few seasons time id think yeh he acted a dick but thats in the past now he was just immature and when he did eventually leave it would be alot easier to take.
Even if he hadnt been a media whore over the summer i would of still wanted Viva Ronaldo to be sung less, we have plenty of great songs for our team and our players, it was a waste that viva ronaldo was practically all we sung. we’ve got a good song book and this season alot of good chants have been brought back
If God exists surely he would support the Reds anyway….!!!
Scott is right on when he states that tthe the greasy one was pushing for a move….. but he has got told by SAF to stop fucking about as he was on a contract and as he only signed the bastarding thing the year before he has gotta stay….. it might be better pointed out to the little fucker that to sign for the onions he had better buck his ideas up and start playing better cos if he don’t no fucker will want him…. cept shitty city who have money to burn, so message to Ronaldo get back into the swing, you twat or you just might be staying. But I’d rather have committed players like Tevez & Rooney, who’ll bust a gut instead of a ‘Oooh I’ve been tackled, so I;ve gotta sit here posing till the referee sees that I must have been fouled’ gobshite
Jesus not again, sitting here at me puter laughing me head off to Scot the Reds blog and reading the posts ( priceless)and listening to Hendrix…..come on Scott it was just a few lickle swear words ….. dont moderate my ass again lololo….
CLEANED UP VERSION;
Bollocks to Ronaldo. Let him go if he wants to…. then Rooney will have the chance at last for some payback.
Sully get a grip man.
Failsworth Devil: Right on
Bossdem: You a priest? lololol
AJ: Either type slower or get a dictionary …. what a fucking tool!!!!
Keep up the blog Scotty and keep the Reds winning
Whats with everyone’s reaction to AJ’s opinion? He might be a very deep christian and takes offense to the fact that people are calling Fergie “god”, why are most people slating him?
@Stephen: I find it funnier that instead of seeing the racism case from both sides, all the Liverpool fans can moan about is how much they’ve spent to watch the game and what not
I think someones been to their diversity meeting this month….
Scholes…..now there’s a God
SPOT ON SCOTT. this article just about sums up all the thoughts in my head, I SERIOUSLY dont think i can like this guy again, i honestly want him to go but not to FaKE MADRID, but in saying that im still sure that it is gonna kill me like every other united fan when he leaves, so lets just enjoy what he gives us this season( Doubt it will be much, as he dont seem bothered anymore), the selfish bugger. and we can enjoy the next era without that louse next season, But please fergie sign up TEVEZ, for a foreigner this guy really gives his all for Man united and shows full commitment.P.S THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT HIM STAYING THIS YEAR IS THAT HE WILL BECOME THE FIRST PREMIERSHIP PLAYER TO WIN THE WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR WHILE PLAYING HERE(AND DONT SAY GEORGE WEAH ETC, THEY WERENT PLAYING HERE WHEN THEY WON IT), AND THIS HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS AT UTD, SO WE KEEP ON SEETTING ALL TYPES OF TRENDS, LIKE THE FIRST ENGLISH TEAM TO WIN THE EUROPEAN CUP, FIST TO WIN TREBLE. ETC.ANOTHER P.S LEAVE GOD OUT OF THIS, SORRY IF I AM OFFENDING ANY1
“God only knows if CR7 will stay or go”
A question , when J Stam was sold did anyone ask him or his family if they wanted to move ? no out he went and in came the cash . I have heard so much rubbish about Ronaldo and most is paper talk and hardly a basis for forming an opinion about anything . If clubs can sell a player for money than players can listen to offers of more money ( I would and please so would most of you ) I support the 11 in the shirt on the pitch , have done for a long time , thats all that matters the rest is BS . Give it a rest .
Mish, Stam wrote a book and slagged off the Nevilles and alleged Fergie tapped him up, Ronaldo has had nothing but support from everyone.
Amen, to that !!
Ronaldo was adored last season, Viva Ronaldo was like an anthem at the matches, we gave him everything we had as supporters and how did he re-pay us??? By wanting to go. There are other players at the club who deserve our devotion far more than Ronnie. Even when he came on against Villareal, I couldn’t give him a standing ovation, I couldn’t even get up out my seat I felt like I was being two faced – instead I had my head in my hands and didn’t know what to do. He let us all down and it’s gonna be hard for everyone to forgive him.
Ok lads relax i just felt a bit offended.
Doesnt make me less of a manc if i believe in God
Ronaldo is a brilliant player, no doubt about that. But at the same time, one would wonder if he had joined any other club other than United, would he had been able to fulfil the potentials which he had shown back at Sporting Lisbon? Ronaldo has always benefited from the players who he has around him at United. He has the right manager who brought the best out of him as well. He is a superstar now but it could have turned the other way round if SAF decided to bring in Ricardo Queresma instead of Ronaldo years ago.
Scott?? You create tension when there doesn’t need to be any. It seems like you write these blogs because you want to have the sadistic pleasure of reading a load of anti-Ronaldo comments. I am just being honest. You say he will be of in the summer. How do you know that? Many people thought he would be of in 06 and 08 and he didn’t. He will go when Fergie wants him to go and Fergie is here until at least 2010. How do you know he won’t sign a new contract? Why are you digging up ground that is two months old? do you think its what Fergie wants to hear? No! are you helping the club? No. Infact, all you are doing is being a pure embaressment to the club
You say the contrast is different at Edwood from last season to this with regards to singing but many thought Ronaldo’s song wouldn’t be sang at all and it is still being, so let me tell you when Ronnie goes on a run, it will be back to next season. Fact. I am a season ticket holder in the stretty and I will continue to support Ronaldo and why? Because I don’t act like a jilted lover at the altar and I knew Ronaldo wanted to go to Madrid one day (as did you) I didn’t expect it to be soon but I can see his reasoning as he won everything he could here, both individually and with the team. He even said the club understood his reasons and like Fergie himself said, Ronaldo has got on with it, returned to play 6 weeks earlier than expected, not moaned and given his all in the United shirt. I was speaking to an Irish guy at the Villareal game. We got speaking about Ronaldo and he said ‘I am just pleased Ronaldo is still here. I knew he wouldn’t be here forever but its better to have loved than never to’. The fact is, a lot goes on behind the scenes in football as we learnt with Ruud Van Nistlerooy today and we have no idea what kind of advice Ronaldo was getting from his advisors.
Listen to what Lou Macari said. ‘the british players and the foreign players have different ambitions and the british ones understand that the foreign ones want to move abroad’.
Viva Ronaldo
Mark YOU HAVE SPOKEN!
Mark, YOU HAVE SPOKEN like a Manu fan who has already moved on- not waiting around looking for who moved your chesse. I kind of like your analysis great!